Building a Community With Babywearing

Building a Community With Babywearing

It's not unusual to find me swaying slowly in the grocery store while browsing different brands of crackers. Or bouncing slightly through the produce aisle. Or humming softly. Sometimes I just say “shhhhh” and rock...
Celebrating Gratitude, Giving Thanks As a Family

Celebrating Gratitude, Giving Thanks As a Family

Each autumn in the U.S. and Canada (October), we commemorate the celebration of harvest and peace between European settlers to the continent and local native inhabitants (check out this simple history of Thanksgiving from Kids...
Are We Helping Our Kids To Be Happy? Reconsidering the Criteria for Joy

Are We Helping Our Kids To Be Happy? Reconsidering the Criteria for Joy

This year at my mother-in-law’s birthday, someone asked her what her birthday wish was. “For all my children to be happy,” she said resolutely. I hear the same sentiment echoed in my own mother’s words...
Going Expat Pt. 2: The Pros and Cons of Moving Abroad

Going Expat Pt. 2: The Pros and Cons of Moving Abroad

I recently wrote a post about going expat. I recently gave birth to my first child living here in Chile with my Chilean partner. It’s magical, and it’s hard. My post mostly focused on the...
Boba International Babywearing Week Giveaway

Boba International Babywearing Week Giveaway

For those of us who love babywearing, love that freewheeling closeness, that do-it-all on-the-go snuggling, every week is babywearing week, every day a celebration of being together in this big colorful world. But this week,...
Adventures in Babywearing: International Travel

Adventures in Babywearing: International Travel

Travel is an incredible way to bond as family while also experiencing other cultures through their food, geography and daily life. But as any traveler knows, there is also a lot to manage when you...
An Inspiring Story About Donating Breast Milk While Traveling

An Inspiring Story About Donating Breast Milk While Traveling

We all know that breast milk is worth its weight in gold.  As a breastfeeding mother I know this fact very well.  I’ve been fortunate enough that I don’t often have to pump for my...
Families Who Inspire Us, Yours Included

Families Who Inspire Us, Yours Included

You may start noticing something different in the blog posts that you will be seeing here at Boba Family. Where many of our previous posts focused on babywearing, our company's bread and butter, we are...

Win a Day Out With Boba!

We recently reached 50,000 fans on Facebook as well as 5,000 fans on Twitter! As a thank you to our wonderful fans, we are giving away a Boba Carrier 3G as well as a $100...